Neither snow nor sleet can stop bus fare meeting

The scene outside the glass bank on the Square on is bleak and ice-encrusted at noon on Tuesday.

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On a day when schools are closed and most activities cancelled due to snow, a critical Transit and Parking Commission meeting scheduled for Tuesday night will go on as planned.

"It's not the sort of thing I want to postpone," says commission chair Carl DuRocher of the meeting, at which the decision will be made whether to raise Madison Metro's cash fares by 50 cents, to $2. "It would seem like an abdication not to do it."